SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
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So after reading a misleading meme on the internet I was compelled to compare the COVID situation in Canada over the past few months to that in the USA. This is what I notice.
The Canadian stock market has crashed by a thousand points since the beginning of the year and COVID cases in Canada have **increased** 700% since mid june... Compared to america where the stock market has **increased** by 3,000 points since the beginning of the year (thatsa 33% increase) and covid cases has **dropped** by more than 50% since the beginning of july.
The issue with lockdowns is they look great to everyone who is too ignorant to understand whats going on, but they devastate the economy and do no good because the second you let up the lock down no one has immunity and the virus spreads like it is new. So in the long run you get hit hard in the wallet AND in terms of the infection. Meanwhile the americans approach may have resulted in more infection early on but fewer in the long term and without damaging the economy along the way.
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@rbe_expert Yes it would. Even if you could some how figure out a way to make a non-capitalistic society work without everyone starving to death in general (has never been down) the productivity and ability to make progress in terms of infrastructure and resources still has just as much effect on the health of the population as in a capitalist society. If you lock everyone away and prevent them from working resources, including food, become scarce and people start dying.
The only difference you'd have in an idealistic non-capitalist society, say communism, would be instead of some people starving a bit more than others, everyone would starve and die together.
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@rbe_expert Yes I know what your saying. that has the same consequences, just to a slightly lesser extent than locking everyone away.
Point is lockdowns don't work, to any extent, when dealing with a virus that has the sorts of qualities this virus has. A full lockdown would have the worst long-term results, a partial lock down isnt quite as bad but still does more harm than good.
Lockdowns do not work at surpressing a virus that is in the wild globally, has a large portion of asymptomatic carriers, has short incubation periods, and has weak long-term immune response.... it literally has all the characteristics that a lockdown is **not** suited for as a solution.
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What could go wrong?
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1304973881078214656
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New video: Do restrictive abortion laws reduce the abortion rates? https://bitchute.com/video/9q1KnZFVFdSG/ #BitChute
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Portland Overtakes Mos Eisley As Most Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy https://buff.ly/2F3gW7z https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1304215631152250880 #Comedy #Portland
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There is a woman in America who has to live with the fact that the NFL will honor her rapist by wearing his name on their helmets. #JacobBlake https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1304110163864031234 #Germany #America #NFL
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c'mon, there's no media bias - per CNN.
@Rad_Grand_Dad@noagendasocial.com
It certainly seemed this way when CNN broadcast a photoshopped image where they removed the Redskins logo from a Biden photo to help with his optics. (And the depth of questioning "why aren't you madder at Trump? Why do you smile so nicely? Can you smell my hair?" from the media.)
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I find that most identity is bestowed rather than self identified. A few tweaks and the paragraph is an argument to end birthright citizenship (I'm not arguing citizenship laws, just as an example of another identity that's much less objective than one based in biological reality) :
By slapping a flag on our little ones (and declaring it legal all over the planet) before they even enter the birth canal, we are removing entirely their sense of agency to develop their own national identities and to control that identity online and legally. We are completely erasing the spectrum of diversity when it comes to citizenship.
I also find it a pro life argument, they're our little ones even before they enter the birth canal. There's certainly another few tweaks that would make an anti abortion pamphlet.
@Korsier@toot.canberrasocial.net
"By slapping a color code on our little ones (and plastering it all over the internet) before they even enter the birth canal, we are removing enti...
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DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO ERODE TRUST IN OUR AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS BY HOLDING ELECTIONS THROUGH THE SAME VOTING METHODS WE'VE USED SINCE ITS INCEPTION!!! https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1303453969671507970 #Crowder #Election #Trump
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My wife says this kind of thing is Not Helpful.
Trump shares video of Portland protester catching fire set to ‘Footloose’
President Trump on Sunday shared video of a Portland protester accidentally being set in flames set to the song “Footloose” — dubbing the scene “sick.” “These ar…
It's getting harder to take lock downs seriously:
San Francisco gym owners livid after discovering gyms in government buildings have been opened for months
Gyms within government buildings in San Francisco have been open for months, despite privately owned establishments being ordered to close due to the coronavirus.
Kanye West says abortion is "black genocide"
Rap legend and entertainment mogul #Kanye West said in a recent episode of Nick Cannon's podcast "Cannon's Class" that #abortion is a form of "black genocide" unfolding in America.
https://disrn.com/news/kanye-west-declares-that-abortion-is-black-genocide
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Thread by @tedcruz: 1/x Calling out lies is not silence. NYT explicitly admits the 1619 project is revisionist history: “It aims to reframe our country’s history.” It is filled with serious errors—which have been ca...… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1302675046167719943.html
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BLM is a Marxist terror group that uses violence and terror to intimidate innocent people and destroy towns and cities.
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1302235833689235462 #Bongino
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#Colorado suing for peaceful #protest (but one whose perspective the gov disagrees with).
"Did I say 5,500+? I meant 174! Or as
@PatrickForCO
said tonight: "MOSTLY 174!"
https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1301034080075563008
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
